Letters to the Editor Thursday

When I was close to 30, I had two beautiful children, 6 months old and 3 years old. Yes, they had a father. Every single one of the babies viewed through myopic judgment has a father.

So, yes, it’s true that women may not have a partner, but every child has a father.

Let me tell you about my children’s father. He was violent, controlling and scary. All I wanted to do was get away from this man, but I was at his mercy financially and he watched everything I did.

I was allowed to take one class per term at the community college, on a Pell Grant. He would be able to check my attendance via my grade at the end. He wasn’t expecting them to announce an entry-level job position for a student.

The only problem was I couldn’t get to the interview. My father-in-law, who lived close by, had promised me I could get a ride at any time. But not for that interview. He was “busy.”

So was my brother-in-law. Before he got his car, before I married his brother, I had given him rides more times than I can count. But there was no ride forthcoming from family and my blood lived hundreds of miles away.

Who came to my aid? The woman across the street. She was sweet as pie, and when she heard of my predicament, she loaned me a car to use and watched my two children. I had barely known her for a year. Yes, she helped.

This starter position allowed me to progress very quickly into a technical field. A year and a half later, I got a better job and I filed for divorce. My husband would not stop terrorizing me. It wasn’t good for me and it wasn’t good for the kids.

How am I different from Shanesha? I had a good friend in a situation to help.

Some years later I remarried. My husband is an engineer. My salary has coasted us through the hard times of unemployment in 2008.

Shanesha deserves that chance. I don’t agree with her choice to leave the children in the car, but desperation can do things to us that we would not have imagined doing.

Give this woman and columnist Leonard Pitts (“Here’s the real face of poverty,” April 3) a break. That’s especially true if you are Christian. There is no call to judge.

What needs to happen here is assistance. If it doesn’t come from the government, get out there and get up close and personal yourselves.

NAME WITHHELD

Savannah

Editor’s note: The writer was the victim of sexual assault. It’s this newspaper’s policy not to publish the names of victims of such crimes.

Political left stoops to pure bigotry

We are to end the war on President Obama and this White House? Hmm, a large number of people would reply that they are simply acting in self-defense.

The fact that we are having this conversation reflects the sad state of affairs. Presidents Nixon and Clinton were both set upon by Articles of Impeachment for lying. Nixon did not resign because of the Watergate break-in but for the lies within the cover-up. Clinton was not prosecuted for his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky but for his repeated lies to anyone who would listen.

When a president lies, he subverts the office and authority that we bestow upon him.

The Fourth Estate embraced Hillary Clinton when she donned her running shoes for the presidency, but quickly threw her under the steamroller and then backed back over her when Barack Obama entered the race.

Was he more qualified than Ms. Clinton? No, as he had next to zero experience in anything of value. His sole qualification appears to be his skin color.

So the altruistic political left, friend of all, stoops to pure bigotry in their slavish devotion to all that is presented by this administration.

How does the political left justify providing an on-going smoke screen of media bias to protect an administration that will say anything and then accuse any dissenter of being racist?

BERNARD K. LOGAN, JR.

Savannah

President Obama is no George Washington

“Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life.”

This quote by George Washington represents the God-centered worldview that served as the foundation of our society and Constitution.

President John Adams reinforced this fact when he said, “Our Constitution was made for a wholly and religious people. It is inadequate to govern any other.”

President Obama in 2009 proclaimed to Muslims that “we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation,” which represents the secular progressive attitude and goal for America. The American presidency has degenerated from having a Godly man who “cannot tell a lie” to secular one who can only tell a lie.

DAVID DELNOSTRO

Pooler

America fast becoming a banana republic

The Washington press corps is owned by not only President Obama, but liberals in general. They are awed by the power, the marble and the money.

Rarely do you hear news reports of the abuses of power taking place. The White House is good at rotating reporters into great government jobs. Don’t play along and you will be ruined. Look what happened to CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson for asking the wrong questions.

This administration has been using its power to bully and harass opponents. A Texas businesswoman started a couple of 401(c)(4) organizations and immediately felt the wrath: Six FBI “domestic terrorism” inquiries, an IRS visit, two IRS business audits, two IRS personal audits, and inspections of her equipment manufacturing company by the BATF and a visit from OSHA. OSHA complimented her for running a “tight shop” then fined her $25,000.

There is a cadre of Obama supporters who bend themselves into pretzels to defend his behavior. If you think this is cute because you support Obama, your attitude may change when he leaves. If the next president and the one after that continues this behavior, our “fundamental transformation” to a Third World banana republic will be complete. Defend that.

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Speak for yourself Obama. You may wish that we are not a Christian nation, but when you say "We" you are supposedly speaking for all of us and that is just pain not true. This country was founded on Judeo/Christian values and most Americans believe that we are still a country with Judeo/Christian values as a back drop of the way we live our lives. Even atheists conduct themselves with the same morals and ethics as their Christian and Jewish neighbors.

Are you saying that people of color are more qualified to be president because of the color of their skin? If you are, it flies in the face of every bigoted person who ever thought otherwise. Well maybe you were not saying that, but remember President Obama won two presidential elections and Americans of African decent did not elect him, Americans did. And to think it happened in your lifetime.

I guess Mr. Delnostro viewed a news source that takes things Obama says out of context. Here is the passage as spoken--and its context was a joint news conference with the President of Turkey:

"...I think that where -- where there's the most promise of building stronger U.S.-Turkish relations is in the recognition that Turkey and the United States can build a model partnership in which a predominantly Christian nation and a predominantly Muslim nation, a Western nation and a nation that straddles two continents -- that we can create a modern international community that is respectful, that is secure, that is prosperous; that there are not tensions, inevitable tensions, between cultures, which I think is extraordinarily important.

That's something that's very important to me. And I've said before that one of the great strengths of the United States is -- although as I mentioned, we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation; we consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

I think Turkey was -- modern Turkey was founded with a similar set of principles, and yet what we're seeing is in both countries that promise of a secular country that is respectful of religious freedom, respectful of rule of law, respectful of freedom, upholding these values and being willing to stand up for them in the international stage. If we are joined together in delivering that message, East and West, to -- to the world, then I think that we can have an extraordinary impact. And I'm very much looking forward to that partnership in the days to come..."

It certainly can't be seen as an outrageous statement to speak of the United States as protecting religious freedom, can it? Ours is a secular government; we do not have a state religion, and our Constitution prohibits the establishment of one. However, we are bound by our Constitution to protect the free exercise of religion. So, Obama's statements are accurate, and the letter writer's conclusion seems rather overwrought.

Boy oh boy the sour grapes are out today. Bernard to try to put Presidents Nixon and Clinton in the same impeachment boat is a stretch to say the least. Nixon’s people first tried to circumvent the election process with the break-in and were caught. Then his people with his knowledge obstructed the investigation with pay off, destroying evidence and yes lying. The GOP went after Clinton from day one when got in office, in fact if you think back this is when the GOP's mean spirit really took over and is still with us today. One of the main reasons they did this was because the Clintons tried to fix our broken health care system (Hillaycare), sound familiarly as to what is going on today? Since they didn’t have a Watergate scandal, they came up with a Whitewater scandal and when that didn’t pan out they moved over to what should have been a personal matter. Funny that Newt was doing the same thing as he was pushing the charges against Clinton. Go back and look at how the impeachment votes went in both cases. So ok we have a list of Nixon, Clinton and Obama that lied to the American people, do you really think there are no other names we can add to that list?

David, I guess the talking point for today was “Lie”. As far as that nice quote by George Washington, you do know he was a slave owner at that time? Seems you passed over Jefferson's "Separation of church and state,” conveniently! “It is estimated that 809 million people have died in religious wars throughout the ages. The conflicts include crusades, inter religious conflict, religious sects conflicts etc.” That fact alone should be a good reason to keep a separation of church and state. If I were a betting man I would bet that someone somewhere in our world today will be killed over religion. There are around 21 major world religions today and most of them would be representative in America today, so which one should our government show preference to? Your’s?

Mark I tried goggling your Texas story all kind of ways and nothing. This wouldn't be a FOX or Rush or Hannity story would it? Keep hearing about the left leaning press and then I hear that FOX is number one and Lord knows they lean so far right that I think they have hit the ground already.

PS Belle, President Obama did not say " we are not a Christian nation". He said we are no longer "just" a Christian nation, but a nation of many other faiths as well. A chain e-mail drops that "just" key word and thus changes the meaning and has been passed around to millions that don't bother to find out the truth.Peter has the full quote on this,I was making it simple for a reason.

It is worrisome, arguably unconstitutional, the way the Obama regime behaves. It's all Ram, Bam, and Damn you all. If you cannot see that then you're blind. If you can and still let it slide then you're dangerous.

This must be "Slam Obama Day" at SMN. They have these days on and off all year long. Most of these writers like Delnostro appear to be nut jobs with the same old tired rhetoric.

"President Obama in 2009 proclaimed..."

One would think that with all the b/s spewed by the right; junk on Fox News and the editorials that other columnist write that SMN frequently edit to present often highly misleading articles that Delnostro and other conservative haters could at least find something new.

With the Republican Party in such disarray and fractured and with the Tea Party crazies still on the loose I suppose an old tired letter from one of SMN's staff's favorite writers will have to do.

Preview of coming attractions: In the next week or two expect another "Slam Obama Day" here at SMN with letters from Dick Miller and Dick Berkowitz.

Funny that a political party that is supposed to be on the right side is mostly on the wrong side for the working men and women in our country. See where the GOP is still playing games with the bill to restore long-term unemployment insurance. The GOP/TP has this notion that the unemployed in our country are just living high on the hog collecting unemployment and don’t want to work, so what needs to happen to those people is for them to lose anything that they still may have and then those lazy people will go out and get a job.

For those on that right side around here, how about a Top Ten List on what the GOP/TP has done for the workers in America for the last 50 years, no let’s say the last 100 years so you will have more of a chance. Here is mine:

Yes when I googled WND Politic, I hit pay dirt also.
“WorldNetDaily (WND) is an American web site that publishes news and associated content from the perspective of U.S. conservatives and the political right.” Some of the other stories they are pushing.

WND Exclusive: Targeted Christian scores major legal victory.

WND Exclusive: IRS target: 'I will not retreat, surrender'

If I sent you to Huffing Post to back up my story what would you think?